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Blood, Silverbat and Ballroom Dances

(Slughorn's party in Half-Blood Prince)

Very few people knew how it felt like to be a vampire: it was like being anemic, you were tired all the time. Unless you had a chance to drain some blood!
Sanguini, being a well-behaved vampire, couldn't just allocate his blood sources from anywhere. He had to be very careful whose blood he drained.
So it was a very lascivious, horrible temptation when he met Luna Lovegood one day, while he still had not eaten.

To say meeting her—with her smell of lovely, fresh, warm blood—on an empty stomach was difficult...Well, it was an understatement. Sanguini had to repeatedly remind himself that he had better not get carried away or be found draining the delicious, fine blood of Ms. Lovegood. He might actually get in trouble for that! And imagine, vampires already had to fight with such a bad reputation! He better not ruin the party and do anything other than dance!

Good thing the vampire had his fine dancing shoes on his slender feet. Vampires didn't just drain blood, they were excellent dancers!

Sanguini straightened his silver tie, which matched his handsome silver-and-black pinstripe suit, and sauntered through the party crowd towards the mysterious blonde. As he approached closer, he made sure to grab several bloody steaks and bloody liver pate from the waiter's appetizer trays...so that he would be at least somewhat satiated when he reached the presence of such a...wild flower.

Luna Lovegood, up close, was even more beautiful than he thought she would be. She had large, unjudgmental and fine crystal blue eyes. They gazed at even monsters without fearing. Sanguini had an idea that Luna Lovegood would not even be afraid of a large monster if she were not afraid of him.

'Could I dance with you?' he asked while trying not to salivate too much over the rich aroma of her blood.

Luna reached out her hand and grabbed his. 'Of course, you may. Harry potter does not dance at all.' She grinned and took a sip of her cherry punch drink. 'He has two left feet, so I shall dance with you...?' She raised her brows as she waited for him to give his name.

Sanguini returned her grin, showing off a large set of blistering white and pointy teeth. 'Sanguini,' he said with a thick Romanian accent. 'My name, lovely one, is Sanguini.' He stooped to kiss her hand and practically purred, trying to resist biting the lovely girl. 'At your service.'

Sanguini and Luna spent most of the night twirling together as he showed the young, waifish witch how the waltz, samba, and tango were all properly danced.

By the end of the night, her pale cheeks were properly flushed with roses in them. Oh, how he desired to reach out and pinch her cheeks for a drop of that rose-like blood. It would taste delicious.

He panted and rested his elbow against a wall. He was truly exerted and needed to eat.

Though he wished to spend all eternity with Luna, dancing and smiling and sharing secrets with her, he had to eat before he fell dead on the floor from exhaustion. He took out a handkerchief and wiped at his brow.

'Oh, lovely one, my Luna. Dear me, how I will regret this later, but please excuse me. Like Cinderella, I must be off before midnight...to, er, eat! You will remember me and write to me, won't you?'

'Yes, of course, I will Sanguini,' Luna said and then reached up on her toes to kiss him on his pale, bloodless cheek.

If Sanguini still had a heart, it would be hammering so hard with joy now. He had been kissed by the most beautiful and strange girl in the party; the belle of the ball!

'Thank you, my lovely, we will meet again,' he said before hopping off the balcony and transforming into a bat in the sky.

He then spent the rest of the starry night eating flies and small mice for blood. It was a very tasty treat, but all along, the handsome grey bat had only one beautiful creature on his mind: his blonde lovely that he would return to one day when he was back in his human form and his blood replenished.

Truly, Harry Potter was a fool for letting this lovely girl out of his sight. Well, Sanguini did not suffer fools lightly.

He would return for his lovely.

...THE END...